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• Have Niall Horan And Hailee Steinfeld Split?

  14-12-2018 17:37
  It looks like it.
  
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• Marnie Simpson Shocks Fans With Completely Topless Pic

  14-12-2018 17:29
  Christmas came early courtesy of the former Geordie Shore lass.
  
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• Shakira charged with tax evasion in Spain

  14-12-2018 17:05
  Colombian singer alleged to have avoided £13m tax by saying she lived in BahamasSpanish prosecutors have charged the Colombian singer and philanthropist Shakira with tax evasion, alleging she avoided €14.5m (£13m) in taxes by claiming to live in the Bahamas while actually resident in Catalonia.Shakira changed residences in 2015 from the Bahamas to Barcelona, where she lives with her partner, the Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué, and the couple’s two sons. Continue
  
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• Rapper J Hus sentenced to eight months in jail for carrying a knife

  14-12-2018 16:30
  ‘I regret my foolish actions,’ says musician who plead guilty after police found him with 10cm blade in east LondonThe rapper J Hus has been sentenced to eight months in jail after admitting to carrying a knife in a public place.Police caught the 22-year-old, AKA Momodou Jallow, with a weapon near the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, east London, on 21 June. They stopped him and his girlfriend after smelling cannabis. Continue reading...
  
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• 18 Best Celeb Bums Of 2018

  14-12-2018 16:20
  It's all about the belfie.
  
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• Chic & Nile Rodgers review – timeless party classics at the Nile high club

  14-12-2018 16:19
  SSE Hydro, Glasgow
  Sticking to beloved hits and backed by formidable vocalists, Rodgers has the audience dancing from the get-go on his biggest ever UK tour This summer Nile Rodgers curated a music festival in a rolling Glasgow park. Day one was stacked with funk and soul veterans such as Roy Ayers while the second featured modern artists, including Emeli Sandé. It is testament to Rodgers’ evergreen musical legacy – and exuberant self-belief – that he and his tireless ba
  
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• 'It's a cool time to be alive!' – fiddle sensation Gaelynn Lea on proving her doctors wrong

  14-12-2018 15:58
  The award-winning musician, who was born with brittle bone disease, talks about going on tour, finding love – and fighting for accessible green rooms
  Six weeks before her wedding Gaelynn Lea was dangerously ill in hospital after complications from surgery. She had to persuade the doctors to let her fiance stay overnight, since they weren’t technically married. “And every night he was asleep in this little chair by the bed. Going through this intense experience confirmed a lot o
  
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• 'It's a cool time to be alive!' – fiddle sensation Gaelynn Lea on changing perceptions of disability

  14-12-2018 15:58
  The award-winning musician, who was born with brittle bone disease, talks about going on tour, finding love – and fighting for accessible green rooms
  Six weeks before her wedding Gaelynn Lea was dangerously ill in hospital after complications from surgery. She had to persuade the doctors to let her fiance stay overnight, since they weren’t technically married. “And every night he was asleep in this little chair by the bed. Going through this intense experience confirmed a lot o
  
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• The Monkees: Christmas Party review – festive mishmash best when guests chime in

  14-12-2018 15:00
  RhinoThe first ever Monkees Christmas album is a curious hodgepodge, mainly because it’s hard to work out in what sense it’s really a Monkees album.For the most part, it appears to be Mickey Dolenz backed by three quarters of Fountains of Wayne (FoW’s Adam Schlesinger produces almost all of the record). Two old vocals by the late Davy Jones have new instrumental beds added; Peter Tork takes one (not terribly tuneful) vocal; Michael Nesmith donates two standards produced by his
  
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• John Legend: A Legendary Christmas review – tasteful covers need a tot of sherry

  14-12-2018 15:00
  Its classy backings, star guests and deep cuts avoid tackiness, but Legend should have got out the tinsel and loosened upThe world needs more new Christmas music: it sounds like something only a raving maniac would say, but there’s a grain of truth in it. The pantheon of celebrated Christmas pop songs is a surprisingly small. There have been attempts to expand the canon over the years by including songs that were relative flops on release – Elton John’s Step Into Christmas, lef
  
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• Jessie J: This Christmas Day review – bigger-is-better seasonal fare aiming for world domination

  14-12-2018 15:00
  RepublicWhitehall apparatchiks tasked with making Brexit Britain a global trading partner could perhaps take inspiration from Jessie J, who became massively successful in China this year after starring in a TV singing competition there, and then consolidated her north American links via a special relationship with Channing Tatum. She now aims to seal her intercontinental appeal with her first Christmas album.Flanked with beautifully arranged backings that emphasise the “big” in big b
  
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• Eric Clapton: Happy Xmas review – the ghost of Christmas songs past

  14-12-2018 15:00
  Brushbranch/SurfdogThis effects-heavy standards album is baffling: it never heats up, festively speakingAt the heart of this collection, one that is as “will this do?” as its half-arsed artwork, is a six-minute version of Jingle Bells: “In Memory of Avicii.” The suicide of the Swedish DJ apparently affected Clapton, and the notion of his tribute, extending a hand from blues to EDM, is strangely touching. The actual song, less so. Jingles and bells are scant; really, the o
  
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• Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert: Ghost Stories for Christmas review – the dark heart of the season

  14-12-2018 15:00
  Rock ActionArab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat isn’t the most obvious candidate to release a Christmas album. He introduces their gigs as being “unsuitable for children”. His largely misanthropic narratives feature tales of brawling, fighting and Scenes of a Sexual Nature. This year’s Here Lies the Body, which paired Moffat and fellow Glaswegian Scottish album of the year winner Hubbert – was a selection of “carnal lullabies”.And yet, after having so much f
  
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• Scotty T Unveils Questionable New Tattoo After Losing A Bet To Charlotte Crosby

  14-12-2018 13:42
  The Geordie Shore lad got some very interesting ink on his back.
  
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• Vicky Pattison Leaves Fans Shook In Fire Crochet Bikini Pics

  14-12-2018 12:57
  The Geordie Shore lass is serving us all the lewks.
  
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• The 50 best albums of 2018, No 6: Idles – Joy as an Act of Resistance

  14-12-2018 07:00
  Mixing rage and humour with real emotions, this is a sorely needed state-of-the-nation address of the kind that British bands no longer seem capable of writingBest albums of 2018Best culture of 2018If 2018 was a year in which political events seemed as if they were coming to an increasingly perilous head, then here was the response: a sorely needed state-of-the-nation address of the kind it was assumed British guitar bands were no longer capable of writing. Brexit, immigration, rape culture, the
  
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• 'Someone called me the antichrist': behind the battles for Christmas No 1

  14-12-2018 07:00
  Christmas No 1 was once a fiercely fought-over prize. From Rage Against the Machine v Joe McElderry, Slade v Wizzard and George Michael in Wham! v George Michael in Band Aid, winners and losers recall the great festive stand-offsThe rivalry erupted in a custard pie fight Continue reading...
  
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• Surveillance fears grow after Taylor Swift uses face recognition tech on fans

  14-12-2018 04:33
  Pop star’s reported use of software to root out stalkers may be well meant, but it fuels a disturbing trend, experts sayTaylor Swift secretly surveilling her fans using facial recognition technology might sound like science fiction – but Rolling Stone reported on Thursday that the pop star has been doing exactly that in an effort to root out stalkers.Swift has stayed silent on the report, declining to comment to the Guardian and other news organizations. But the episode has raised et
  
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